Tagged: pebble

That was fast. There is an interesting correlation between the Pebble watch announcement and Kickstarter crashing. A quick visit to the Kickstarter status page indicates a “Partial Outage”. As it stands right now Kickstarter appears to be back online, but still struggling to serve pages after a brief downtime. Perhaps this is a consequence… Read More

Pebble Set to Challenge Forthcoming Apple Watch with New Design, 10 Day Battery Life & “Smartstraps” Pebble, the leader in the smartwatch space, launched a second round of crowdfunding on Kickstarter at the end of last month. The project rocketed immediately, easily topping its half a million dollar “goal” and now stands at over $12… Read More

Domino’s Pizza is giving customers yet another new way to place their order, all from the convenience of their own wrist. Domino’s customers can now place and track their order via Pebble and Android Wear smartwatches. This marks the first time that Domino’s ordering is available on smartwatch technology. To utilize this new ordering feature, Pebble… Read More

Pebble CEO and founder Eric Migicovsky is making the PR rounds alongside the spectacular launch of the Pebble Time crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Everyone is comparing it to the forthcoming Apple Watch as a David vs. Goliath battle looms inside the octagon. Migicovsky is pretty confident is Pebble’s position stating they are the most popular… Read More

Global crowdfunding platform was struggling to keep the site live today and some sites were asking if the Pebble Time crowdfunding campaign was to blame. While I would be surprised if Pebble is the root cause of things, Pebble has been blasting skyward in an unprecedented crowdfunding trajectory. We’re sorting things out over here. Meanwhile,… Read More

Pebble Time, the new iteration of the Pebble Smartwatch, launched a promotional crowdfunding campaign yesterday on Kickstarter. The first time around it took a few weeks to raise over $10 million. This time it may take just 2 as already over 42,000 have blitzed the pages of Kickstarter to purchase a smartwatch. Pebble has launched… Read More

The Pebble Smartwatch has hit the pages of Kickstarter once again. This time seeking a funding round of $500,000. But don’t blink. The crowdfunding campaign raised that amount and then some almost immediately. At this very moment, Pebble has raised well over $3.4 million, from more than 17,000 backers, for a product (and a company) that… Read More

Pebble Watch, a poster child for the potential of crowdfunding to take a cool concept and turn into a consumer reality, has surpassed 1 million watches sold having topped 400k last year. This report comes on the eve of Apple’s most important product launch in years – the Apple Watch. Pebble, founded by Eric Migicovsky,… Read More

When Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ), the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, launched its fan-favorite Domino’s Tracker nearly seven years ago, smartwatch technology was likely never a part of the plan. It is now. The pizza tracker, which allows customers to trace their order from the time it is taken, baked and out for delivery, will now be available on… Read More

As most everyone knows by now, the Coolest Cooler crowdfunding campaign now reigns as the most funded project on Kickstarter ever at $13.3 million. An incredible amount of backers came together to overthrow the mighty Pebble Smartwatch from the crowdfunding throne. And who would have thought that a new approach on the common cooler would have… Read More

As we reported earlier this week, Coolest Cooler became the most funded project ever on global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter having cruised past Pebble Watch. Coolest still has a few hours to go as it hovers around the $12 million mark as about 57000 have backed the project. Pretty impressive if you ask me. But… Read More

Sometime last night the Coolest Cooler strolled past the Ouya video game console to become the 2nd biggest crowdfunding campaign ever on Kickstarter. Only the Pebble smartwatch stands in Coolest Cooler’s path to become the most funded campaign of all time on the Kickstarter platform. Pebble has held the champion title for over two years… Read More

With less than 24 hours until its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter comes to a close, “Reading Rainbow” has broken the all-time record of backers on the crowdfunding giant’s platform. On Tuesday, the campaign reached over $4.8 million and has a total of 98,298 backers, which beats out the 91,585 investors who funded the “Veronica Mars” movie in… Read More

LeVar Burton’s “Reading Rainbow” crowdfunding campaign is now in the top five most successful Kickstarter projects of all time. The project is receiving the latest round of support from unexpected sources – the top four highest earning campaigns ever. Pebble, OUYA, Pono and “Veronica Mars” announced that they would each offer rewards from their projects, created specifically for… Read More

Misfit Shine, the popular activity tracker, raised over $840,000 on Indiegogo in 2013 – placing the campaign in the top ten campaigns on Indiegogo that year. Pebble Watch raised over $10 million way back in 2012 on Kickstarter (the Jurassic period in rewards based crowdfunding) and became the poster child hardware crowdfunding. Both devices have captured… Read More

I recently attended the Glazed conference on wearable technology in San Francisco – a relatively new event – but even though it is only a couple of years old over 1300 people signed up to attend. This plays to the excitement and dramatic growth of wearable tech. From the Pebble smartwatch to the vapor… Read More

The Pono Music campaign continues to ascend Kickstarter’s all-time most funded list. The “end-to-end ecosystem for music lovers” has garnered nearly 15,000 backers at the time of writing and had raised just short of $5 million. Thanks everyone for all of your support. It has been and continues to be gratifying to me to see… Read More

Pebble still holds the record for the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time. So, did crowdfunding success translate into big numbers in the world of retail? The figures suggest that Pebble has certainly found their niche. The company has generated a napkin math estimate of $60 million in revenue and sold somewhere in the neighborhood… Read More

Pebble Smartwatch, a crowdfunding superstar, continues to grow and expand their product and offerings. Earlier this year during CES, Pebble announced their new version smartwatch the Pebble Steel. The company recently launched their own, native app store – filling a void in the wearable tech market as corporate giant Samsung has stumbled with their products… Read More

Last updated Tuesday, February 18 @ 10:42 AM EST When I came across The Dash on Kickstarter, I thought it was a mistake. $2 million raised with 41 days to go? That is impressive even by Kickstarter’s standards. Munich, Germany-based Bragi LLC has raised this impressive sum in just over one week for their forthcoming… Read More